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Vacuum polarization instead of "dark matter" in a galaxy

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2022-09-05 v1 Astrophysics of Galaxies

Abstract

We considered a vacuum polarization inside a galaxy in the eikonal approximation and found that two possible types of polarization exist. The first type is described by the equation of state p=ρ/3p=\rho/3, similar to radiation. Using the conformally-unimodular metric allows constructing a nonsingular solution for this vacuum ``substance'', if a compact astrophysical object exists in the galaxy's center. As a result, a ``dark'' galactical halo appears that increases the rotation velocity of a test particle as a function of the distance from a galactic center. The second type of vacuum polarization has a more complicated equation of state. As a static physical effect, it produces renormalization of the gravitational constant, thus, causing no static halo. However, a nonstationary polarization of the second type, resulting from an exponential increase (or decrease) of the galactic nuclei mass with time in some hypothetical time-dependent process, produces a gravitational potential looking like a dark matter halo.

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@article{arxiv.2209.01008,
  title  = {Vacuum polarization instead of "dark matter" in a galaxy},
  author = {Sergey L. Cherkas and Vladimir L. Kalashnikov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.01008},
  year   = {2022}
}

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16 pages, 6 figures